After an active severe weather day on June 18th, the atmosphere quickly recovered and was able to support additional severe weather which began in the late evening and persisted through the overnight hours. Severe weather during the overnight hours in June is quite rare but does occur on occasion. One of the overnight storms actually produced a rare June tornado! This overnight severe weather was likely a sign and just a taste of what was to come during the day on June 19th. As the overnight/early morning complex of storms shifted east, conditions were set just right for additional storms to redevelop to the west by late morning. The atmosphere recovered once more and became quite unstable in the wake of the morning complex. A very potent disturbance dropped south out of Arkansas and developed a large bow echo complex which plowed south across the forecast area. This bow echo was very efficient at producing severe wind gusts and a large swath of wind damage occurred as the system moved southward across Mississippi into Southeast Louisiana.